Illness	Number of cases
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	215
Heart failure (I50.01)	164
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	113
Syncope and collapse (R55)	110
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	97
Other forms of angina pectoris (I20.8)	94
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.13)	91
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.11)	83
Acute myocardial infarction - Non-ST elevation NSTEMI myocardial infarction (I21.4)	75
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.12)	73

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.0)	704
Additional information on materials used (8-83b.0c)	587
Radio-controlled cardiological telemetry (8-933)	425
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.00)	413
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	318
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	281
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.m0)	278
(9-984.7)	242
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	181
(9-984.8)	167

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0300

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Diabetes mellitus Typ 2

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)
No participation

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
86	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
86	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
80	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Universität Duisburg-Essen
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	VITAS, TrendHip, Anexys u. a.
Doctoral supervision
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Vorlesungen, Kleingruppenunterricht, Famulaturen, PJ, Prüfung 2. Staatsexamen
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Fliedner Hochschule
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Die Orthopädie (Springer), Journal of Functional Biomaterials, International Journal of Molecular Science u. a.

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Ausbildungsstart in 2024